A big ol’ drunken nerd who had a 220 million domestic opening weekend. This is at least from 2012, and dear God but the irony abounds. Weird Al Yankovic has an absolutely unique finger on our cultural pulse, you know?

Congrats to the insanely talented @rianjohnson – king of the box office! In case you didn’t know, before he was writing and directing The Last Jedi, he was KILLING IT at karaoke… https://t.co/HzncKsCb9r

Haven’t bought the tickets yet, because they won’t be on sale for general peons for another week for the venue I’m going to go to (Bethesda, MD). But as soon as it’s available, I’m signing up. It should be an absolute hoot; it’s going to be all the old stuff, and none of the props or video screens. Lots and lots of fun, in other words.

Also that guy that wrote Hamilton, which is of course nice for Lin-Manuel Miranda and everything. But let’s face it: while they’re probably gonna touch on Miranda in music history classes fifty years from now, he’s not exactly the window into a greater understanding of the last forty years of American popular music that Weird Al Yankovic is. You could do a doctoral thesis on the subject of Yankovic’s ongoing tacit assessment and analysis of musical trends, and probably somebody has. It might not even be as dull as ditchwater, either.